(Thanks for all the reviews! I'm glad you didn't mind the re-write! Please review again!)
(Note: Okay, I don't hate Rae-BB. I LOVE Rae-BB. It's become something of an obsession of mine. I said I hated that I was writting this because I'm extremely anti-fluff and usually hate things that only pertain to romance. However, I have now come to terms with Rae-BB fluff. Yay for me!)
Raven fell against Beast Boy as his arms wrapped around her more tightly. "R-really?" she asked in a small voice.
"I love you, Raven. I love you, I love you, I love you..." he said, letting the words he had longed to say poor out.
"I- I love you too," Raven replied, choking on the words as they came out. She couldn't remember a time she'd felt this truely happy-- this loved.
They sat like that a long time, arms caressing each other in that dark corner of the fair, away from the rest of the world, inhaling the essence of the other, their heartbeats syncronizing, until Beast Boy gently lifted Raven from him. "We better head back if we don't wanna get caught. It's getting late."
"You mean early?" Raven asked with a slight smile, wiping a tear from her eye with the palm of her hand. She could feel the approach of dawn, that feeling of life about to begin. It seemed horribly fitting to this moment.
"Yah, well, it's getting to some time that we need to leave," Beast Boy replied, smiling. With that, he wrapped one arm around her waste and the the other hand he entwined with hers. Raven sighed in happiness as they walked toward the exit of the fair, hand in hand. She wasn't going to let her worries of the future interfere with this moment. She just wanted to absorb as much of Beast Boy's love as she could.
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For a split second after waking up to the bright afternoon sunshine streaming through his window, Beast Boy wondered why he was so happy. Then the previous night's occurences came back to him, and he fell backward back into his bed with a sigh. He felt really stupid, being this in love with someone this easily, but then again he didn't really care. However, his moment of refelction was interrupted by a knock on the door.
Robin stood outside the door. "Yah?" Beast Boy asked happily.
"Um," Robin said hestitantly, "I was just checking on you. It's already half past one, and you haven't come out of your room. I thought maybe you were still mad--"
"No, I'm fine!" Beast Boy interrupted Robin.
"Right," Robin said slowly. "Did something happen? You seem happy... more than usually so."
"No, nothing's different!" Beast Boy said in an overly bubbly voice. He grinned widely as he said, "Everything's perfectly normal!"
"Okay," Robin muttered. "Well, are you going to come out for lunch?"
Under the circumstances, Beast Boy would have said no, but Robin looked genuinely concerned for him, so he nodded and smiled. "Sure. I'll be out in a minute."
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Raven was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of herbal tea when Beast Boy walked in and grabbed some tofu from the fridge, grinning like an idiot. She laughed into her tea and barely managed to hide it before Cyborg looked over at her. "How are you two holding up?" he asked her and Beast Boy.
"Oh, fine, I'm great!" they both said nearly simoutaneously. Robin and Cyborg raised their eyebrows, but Raven looked down and Beast Boy continued with his tofu and no one said anything.
"Friends, what have you been doing in your abscence of fighting the crime?" Starfire questioned. Raven shrugged and Beast Boy mummbled somethig about "not much". The other Titans exchanged looks, and while Starfire's was worried and Cyborg's was confused, Robin looked suspicious.
"I'm going back to my room," Raven said after she had downed her cup of herbal tea. She glanced at Beast Boy with a hidden smile and left the room, leaving Beast Boy grinning even more like an idiot than before.
Beast Boy gorged himself on tofu and, after he couldn't eat anymore, was still in such a good mood he let Cyborg talk him into playing a game that he already knew he was going to lose at. After several games, he managed to get away and sneak down the hallway towards Raven room, knocking softly on the door. It opened quickly and he felt himself being jerked in.
Raven closed the door quickly behind him and turned around, while Beast Boy raised an eyebrow. "Why, Raven, I'm flattered, but you really should wait till they're gone..."
Raven punched Beast Boy not-so-gently on the shoulder. "Ha ha, very funny. I think Robin knows."
"That we snuck out?" Raven nodded. Beast Boy shrugged. "How could he? You worry too much."
Raven frowned but said nothing more. Beast Boy looked around Raven's room absently. It looks mostly the same since he had last seen it in fly form while Raven was talking to Malchior. He looked more closely and saw that now, though, Raven had some pictures of the team across her bookshelf, and he smiled.
"So, you wanna do something again tonight?" Raven asked, ignoring the feeling in the pit of her stomach and opting instead to look it the emerald eyes of the boy before her.
Beast Boy put on a fake incredulous look. "That'll be the second time you've asked me out, Raven! I'm starting to feel like you're in complete control of this relationship!"
Raven rolled her eyes with a sigh. "Fine. Go ahead."
"Nah, it's all good. I don't really care who asks who out." Raven pushed Beast Boy and he fell back at the foot of her bed, grinning. "So, where do ya wanna go?" he asked.
"Letting me decide this time?" Raven asked, and Beast Boy grinned. "I dunno, I think about it later."
Beast Boy's grin widened. "What do ya wanna do now?"
Raven raised an eyebrow, and he fell back on her bed laughing. She shoved him on to the floor with her foot, and his laughter died immediately. He picked him self up off the floor scowling as Raven sat on her bed, smiling faintly. Suddenly she heard moving from the other room; the other Titans were going to their own rooms. "You'd better go," she said quickly. He nodded and left.
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Beast Boy sat outside Titan's Tower, watching the waves lap againsts the rocks, wishing Raven would hurry up, wishing they didn't have to sneak out of the Tower, wishing that moment last night could have lasted forever. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. One wish had come true.
"So..." he asked Raven as they walked through the city streets, "Where are we going?"
Raven smiled slightly. "You'll see." They turned down a few wide streets with cars flying past, and slowly made their way to a darker street, every other streetlamp broken, and entered into a shadowed doorway with soft music issueing out.
Beast Boy made a face. "You couldn't tell me we were going to one of your Goth cafes?"
Raven's face fell imperceptibly. "You wouldn't have come if I told you this was where we were going, now would you?"
He scowled. "Of course I would have." Raven smiled and led them to a booth in the corner.
She handed him a menu from the rack behind their booth. "What do you want?"
Beast Boy looked at the menu and saw lots of drink and food he had never seemed to have heard of, or either had never learned to pronouce. He decided to be safe. "Erm, chocolate muffin I guess."
Raven grinned. "You don't know what the drinks are, do you?" He shook his head, and when the waitress came up Raven said, "Two chocolate muffins, a Mocha Frappichino, non-dairy, and an herb-"
The waitress laughed. "I know what you want, Rave, it's okay," she said and walked away.
"You come here often, then?" Beast Boy asked.
Raven nodded. "It's a nice place to be able to think. It's... peaceful."
Beast Boy looked around and could sort of understand what she meant. Even though there were few lights around, the room didn't seem dark. It more seemed to glow, and there was a strange scent in the air that made him feel wonderfully drowsy.
The waitress arrived with their food and drinks and left then left them alone. There was a moment of awkward silence before Raven said suddenly, "What happens when we get our powers back?"
Beast Boy sighed. Leave it to Raven to bring up the subject he so wanted to avoid. "We'll think about that later, okay?"
She got the same look in her eye she got when she thought Robin suspected them, but Raven nodded her head with a sigh. They both seemed to be doing a lot of sighing lately, Beast Boy thought. Impulsively he grabbed her hand accros the table, and she looked up at him with a small smile. "It's going to be okay, right?" she asked softly.
Beast Boy nodded his head. "Of course!" he said in a voice he hoped was more confident than he felt. Would it be okay? This was a lot more complicated than he bargained on. What would happen when they got their powers back? Raven had to control her emotions; would they still be able to be together? However, at just that moment, Raven slid over in the booth to sit next to him, and he shoved all thoughts not relating to this moment to the back of his mind.
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They walked out of the cafe hand in hand, heading back the way they came to return to the Tower before sunrise. They had talked (and argued) about everything under the sun for hours, and Beast Boy couldn't remember talking that much to one person in his life. Somehow the words didn't seem to stop, and he was now sure that they would have nothing to talk about next time, when Raven pulled him off the street. "What is it?" Beast Boy asked alarmed.
"Promise me," Raven said quietly, and Beast Boy heard her voice shake slightly. "Promise me that no matter what happens, no matter where we are, you won't forget me." Beast Boy stood frozen for a minute. Somehow this moment reminded him too much of a cheesey romance movie, where all the boy had to do was say he wouldn't forget the girl and then somehow everything would turn out all right, and they'd live happily ever after. He was starting to see life wasn't like the movies, if what he predicted could happen would end up happening.
Beast Boy stared into her eyes for a moment longer. There was something cold and desolate in them, something close to the numbness he was used to, but there was something else. There was a look of someone daring to hope against there will, and yet expecting to lose that hope. Beast Boy felt some fire flare up within him. He wouldn't let that hope die. "I'll forget you, Raven. I'll never hurt you; I'll never let you fall." Suddenly there lips were locked yet again; it was strange how often this happened without either of them meaning to.
Then, without warning, a light flashed suddenly at them. As they broke apart, they both realized it was a camera flash as someone who looked like a newspaper photographer hurried off. Raven and beast Boy gave each other horrified glances, then they both ran back to Titans Tower as fast as they could.